Originally Posted by
Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
Oh, I wouldn't expect you to.
Which facet we like best is subjective. But I objectively believe we are all part of that diamond that's been built since thee 1780s and is being killed by the digital revolution.
Do you really not "get" Shelley's Ozymandias?
Indeed, as with Kipling's Recessional - on dune and headland sink the fire / lo, all our pomp of yesterday / is one with Nineveh and Tyre - you could say Ozymandias now applies to the death of our Romantic diamond.
.... And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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